Originally Posted by trevon1:
“Yes, Aaron is not an accepting person and seems to have hatred for gay men who are a bit effeminate.”
There was a time, before and around the time that Aaron came out, when he was in his self loathing stage, that he said something like 'I don't want to be part of that freak show'. However, Aaron has moved on and developed very considerably since then. We have seen nothing, either in the latter part of his first stint, or in his second stint, to support the contention that Aaron, as he is now, 'has a hatred for men who are a bit effeminate'. That said, I have little doubt that Aaron is a man's man, in the traditional meaning of the phrase.
Originally Posted by Jewels501:
“I actually thought Aaron was quite nice. I didn't see/hear contempt. He, like many of us, just thought it was weird that Finn was acting as if Aaron could possibly tell if someone in a coma was straight or gay. He also, as many of us do, thought that the whole thing was a tad creepy. I mean Finn is falling for a guy he has never even spoken to. Even if Kasim is gay so what? He might not appreciate a stranger sitting at his bedside almost daily and seemingly already seeing him as relationship material.
I thought Aaron was quite sweet actually as well as being honest and I am not an Aaron fan usually.
Oh, yeah previously he has been pretty mean and dismissive of Finn but in that moment they had a mutual concern for Adam(on Aaron's side) and Victoria(on Finn's side).”
I didn't see anything in Aaron's handling of Finn and Finn's 'gaydar' question that indicated to me that Aaron looked down on Finn, or was in any way hostile or contemptuous of him, he was just blunt and to the point. If Finn had felt that Aaron looked down upon him, he would never have asked the 'gaydar' question in the first place. I have to say that Finn does seem to be somewhat naive in these scenes with Aaron. He's a man in his mid 20s who's been away to university; he's knows and accepts his sexuality, I would have expected him to be a bit more cconfident and rather less driven by stereotype.
Although we haven't seen a great deal of Aaron & Finn together, they have two links in their lives: Adam (best friend/half brother) and Victoria (both are freinds with her and Aaron has history with her too).
Aaron knocked Finn back after their drunken one night stand, the day after the night that Aaron returned from prison, but I can't say that I saw anything cruel about it. It was honest and plainly spoken. That's all. There's never an ideal way of dealing with such a situation, but surely honesty is the best policy?
The worst that Aaron has treated Finn to my mind was using him in an attempt to make Robert jealous. It failed, of course. Finn soon realized what was happening. He was annoyed, but he wasn't devastated by it. In the bad behaviour stakes, it was well down the Richter scale!